The Bisbee Community Chorus, initially the Bisbee Rotary Chorus, was started in 1988 sponsored by the Bisbee Rotary Club, and used the showroom of Bisbee Motors, owned by Rotarian Jim Cox, as its first rehearsal space. That fledgling group of 25 or so people who liked to sing was the beginning of something wonderful for the community of Bisbee. The chorus began its identity as the Bisbee Community Chorus in 1998, and affiliated with the Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities. The organization "flew solo" beginning in 2002, when it incorporated and was given provisional non-profit status. The founding director was Mrs. Peggy McGough, also a Rotarian & former music instructor for Bisbee Schools. She remained until 1994, and upon her retirement, Joseph Curtis, then current school music instructor, held the role of Artistic Director until 2003. Justin Raffa served as Artistic Director from 2003-2006, when he began his graduate work in Choral Conducting at the University of Arizona. Current Artistic Director Lori Keyne comes to Bisbee from Tucson, where she was most recently Artistic Director of the Tucson Girls Chorus.

The mission of the Bisbee Community Chorus, as musical ambassadors of Bisbee / Cochise County, is to provide vocal music in its various forms to this community and elsewhere for the musical joy, musical education, and edification of the singers and aficionados of this art.

The Bisbee Community Chorus is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts.